Title

Authors

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

10-2005

Subject Area

planning - service level

Abstract

The introduction of quality issues in tranport operation tenders has been in several countries an innovative and important approach, which public authorities are trying to integrate in contracts with economical and service related consequences. Normally price and quality follow different directions, but in some cases both can be improved for both the public authorities and the final clients. This paper makes firstly a theoric approach on quality in transport contracts based in european directives and studies, followed by a brief description of european standars related to quality in transport. As a main issue the publication of the EN13816 in 2003 regarding transportation, logistics and services will be highlightened. Finally the paper will discuss the results and conclusions of the analysis made on the terms of reference of transport operation tenders (basically urban transport) published in Spain during the last 5 years, in order to know how quality and other important factors are being treated in the real world.

Comments

Permission to publish abstract given by AET.

Recommended Citation

Lopez Lambas, M., & Garcia Pastor, A. (2005). Quality issues in transport operation tenders – the difficult equilibrium between price and service level. Paper from The Association for European Transport Conference held in Strasbourg, France on 3-5 October 2005.